Crowdsourced health : how what you do on the Internet will improve medicine / Elad Yom-Tov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yom-Tov, Elad, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet in medicine.

Internet research.

Social media.

Online social networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (155 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Most of us have gone online to search for information about health. What are the symptoms of a migraine? How effective is this drug? Where can I find more resources for cancer patients? Could I have an STD? Am I fat? A Pew survey reports more than 80 percent of American internet users have logged on to ask questions like these. But what if the digital traces left by our searches could show doctors and medical researchers something new and interesting? What if the data generated by our searches could reveal information about health that would be difficult to gather in other ways? In this book, Elad Yom-Tov argues that internet data could change the way medical research is done, supplementing traditional tools to provide insights not otherwise available.

Contents:

Our data, ourselves

Answering the unaskable

Anorexia : a disease online

Questions of public health

What patients want to know about their disease, and how information from the internet can help them.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262334815

026233481X

9780262334808

0262334801

OCLC:

945037540